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Beneath the town of Springs, near Johannesburg, where Nadine Gordimer was born in 1923, runs the richest vein of gold in the world. Since 1886, prospectors had flocked to the Witwatersrand, and British colonial power...

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been on a rampage inside the US federal government, laying off hundreds of thousands of workers, dismantling programs that provide people with lifesaving vaccines, and sparking...

Review of Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered and America’s Fatal Leap: 1991–2016 by Paul W. Schroeder (Verso, 2025) International politics is deeply hostile to democratic intervention. At least part...

Steering the country toward another potential financial crisis, the Trump administration has moved to completely gut the federal regulatory agency tasked with reining in the very financial institutions currently making the president’s allies rich. The president’s...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just hid data that mapped out the locations of thousands of dangerous chemical facilities, after chemical industry lobbyists demanded that the Trump administration take down the public records. The webpage was...

Commentators are treating Canada’s current federal election as a case study in the “Trump effect.” Until a few weeks ago, the Conservative Party dominated the polls — thanks in part to Pierre Poilievre, whose churlish...

A few months ago, I was chatting with the mom of a toddler who is the same age as my daughter. As tends to happen when parents of young kids get together, the subject of...

Sophia Rosenfeld Writing a book is a long process, and you never know what political landscape it will land in. It’s important not to write something that only echoes a specific moment, since the life...

Jacobin and Verso are hosting an event with Jean-Luc Mélenchon at CUNY Graduate Center tonight to celebrate the launch of his new book, Now, the People! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century. In the last century, the story of history’s...

There may come a time when we look back on the last decade as an anomaly in the modern history of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis — the figurehead of these years, and a radical...

The day after President Donald Trump announced his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs, pricing guru Craig Zawada held an urgent summit for his clients. The global economy was roiling with anxiety and stocks were in a tailspin,...

“This is what we’ll do. We won’t work on March 27 and 28. Take sick leave, take a day off, turn off the switch, shut down your computer. Let your absence be felt — make...